The Managing Director of Hoist Life Safety System Limited, Mr. Adeleye Oladimeji, has said his firm and Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) will partner to tackle incessant tanker fire accidents.
Oladimeji announced this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Abuja.
He said Hoist Life Safety System would train a team of officials from the university to acquire the right knowledge on how to break a hydrocarbon chain on a vehicle carrying inflammable substances involved in an accident.
The managing director said the Federal Government had expressed concern about the problem of incessant tanker fire accidents and that such incidents needed to be nipped in the bud.
He assured Nigerians that such accidents would soon become history across the country.
“That problem is purely chemistry. With our partnership with Afe Babalola University that is coming on board, we will be able to tackle that, because it is of concern to the Federal Government and we have the solution.
“We have done the mathematics and had some experiments on that. I can tell you that even in the oil and gas industry, it is something they do almost daily.
“They use a particular solvent to lift the crude from a marginal field and what we are looking at is what concentration will be enough that when added to the payload of fuel trucks, it will be able to carry the additional marginal load. That is what will be released as soon as there is an accident.
“We have had cases where firefighters, who were responding to a fire emergency, ran into trouble because they didn’t receive the right information. But with the right information coming from the machine-to-machine communication, SMS alert, the response will be swifter and firefighting will be better done.
“Our alarm system will get to asset owners, irrespective of their locations, whether at home, office or shop. They will get the alert that something is evolving that may consume their assets.
According to him, this innovation is merely replacing the call dialer with wireless equipment.
“We are only using modern technology to do what is already known to the system,” he stated.
Oladimeji said his firm was also trying to improve the communication between property owners and fire safety equipment handlers, who are the responders.
“The interest of Holysis is not only on the Federal Fire Service, but also in all the stakeholders involved in fire service.
“What we are trying to do is to create a distributive network, thereby moving closer to the public, with stations closer to the public or mobile fire appliances closer to them to enhance the response time,” Oladimeji added.
Credit: thenationonlineng.net
